Metropolis

represents. Conversely, Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis adopts an approach marked by the presence of idealism despite a defeated populace. In this way, Metropolis does not conform to a stencil of a typical dystopia that is often applied to both texts. In 1984, Orwell makes clever use of Juvenalian satire to make a biting political statement regarding autocratic ideologies in his own…

imagery, hopelessness, and strong words of caution against perceived threats to civilized society: “Images of dystopia are necessarily reflections of their time” (Berg). From the first glimmers of dystopian society in film as seen in the 1927 film, Metropolis to the present day young adult craze, The Hunger Games series, dystopian film has been playing on audience’s fears and anxieties about the future as they relate to the current social, political, and economic circumstances of the age in…

earth. Sociologist Georg Simmel sought out to demonstrate how cities and their processes change an individual and their mentality. This includes a person’s perspectives, behaviours, attitudes and also the city’s ‘personality’. Using his essay, ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’, we look at how the circumstances following the death of Kitty Genovese supports Simmel’s study with the help of the social psychological phenomenon ‘the bystander effect’. Simmel’s perspective is also supported by present…

Germany and Russia were revealed, George Orwell’s politically satiric “1984” reflects the highly oppressive state which had been omnipresent during the late 1940’s.Similarly, but filmed 20 years prior to 1984, Fritz Lang’s social critique “Metropolis” also mirrors the inherent repression and disregard for social harmony that…

A comparative study of Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1948) sheds light on ideas about progress in the first half of the twentieth century to a large extent. Both texts challenge the vision of “a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly and efficient.” Due to their different contexts, each text presents a different perspective on the issues of the use of social manipulation to achieve progress, and the loss of humanity in relation to the pursuit…

Carilyn Diaz Presas Sociology 330 April 6, 2016 Paper #1 Simmel’s reading, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, is about the way the big city affects people and people’s psyche. Simmel has a negative view on how the city changes people and it is a horrible place to live in. The city makes people unconsciously change their way of thinking and their perspective on each other. City dwellers become more reserved as in they are not open to relationships as small town folk are. So city people do not…

paper will seek to understand the concept of femininity in Weimar Germany through the lens of expressionist film. Using the case study of Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, this paper will display how expressionism was used as a tool through which visionaries could bring to light questions of social change. Embedded in the film Metropolis are strong themes indicative of the prevailing changes brought upon Weimar Germany with respect to gender roles. The loss of the First World War was a blow to…

more of less, a journey from pastoral simplicity to cosmopolitan sophistication, from purity to corruption, or even from the past into the future. In no better case was this relationship present than in the city of Chicago. In the book Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, the author, William Cronon, places the city of Chicago at the focal point for the division between the country and the city. Arguing that since the city and country share a common history, their stories are best…

Do you think that the way we grow up has a lasting effect on us? What we go through and are surrounded by as children can shape our personality and how we deal with the things that occur in our lives. In Missing you, Metropolis written by Gary Jackson the underlying theme of "Machine" (65) and "Emergency" (70-72) is an incredibly deep and difficult subject to talk about: suicide. The way we deal with our past makes us who we are, but how much can a person handle before they break? All that was…

objects. Meanwhile, many of these films plots dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal and other intellectual topics were triggered experiences form World War I. For instance, when Freder found out how badly the under city workers were being treated in Metropolis. Soviet montage school teaches students all aspects of the film industry. In 1919 Russian filmmakers Sergei…